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| Schumer Wants Biden to Transfer Wealth From Auto Mechanics to Harvard Grads |
| 2021-02-08 |
| [Townhall] Jim and Jill were born a little more than a year apart to the same unmarried mother in Southern California. Jim was adopted by a working-class family in the San Fernando Valley, where the father made his living as an auto mechanic and the mother as a maid. Jill was adopted by an upper-middle-class family in Pasadena, where the father was a lawyer and the mother stayed home. Jim was a decent high school student and football player -- but not good enough at either to win a college scholarship. When he graduated from 12th grade, his father encouraged him to follow in his own hardworking footsteps as a constantly employed but only modestly paid auto mechanic. He did -- earning a mechanic's certificate at the local community college and taking a job in the same shop as his dad. Jill was a very good student at a prestigious local prep school. She was also a nearly Olympic-quality swimmer. Harvard recruited her to join its swim team. She was admitted -- and wanted to go. But Harvard does not give athletic scholarships, and even though her adoptive father made a good living as a lawyer (too much, in fact, for her to receive financial aid), the $73,391 that the college board said Harvard costs a student each year for tuition and fees, room and board, and books and supplies was a bit of a stretch. |
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